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Articles tagged with: Text Messages and Instant Messaging

Lack of Education Restricts Growth of Mobile Instant Messaging

Research released today by instant messaging vendor, ProcessOne, has revealed that 60% of mobile users would send less text messages if they were better educated about how to use mobile instant messaging (IM) services. Despite many more of today's mobile handsets having IM capability only 35% of the users surveyed currently used mobile IM with text messaging remaining the dominant communications medium.  more

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Txt Crimes, Sex Crimes and Murder - The Science of Forensic Linguistics

Text and instant messaging may soon cease to be an anonymous method of communication as advances in forensic linguistic research make it possible to identify the sender and also predict the gender and age of the author with some degree of success.  more

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Feature-Rich Mobile Phones Owners Generate Higher ARPU for Network Operators

The average reported monthly spending for wireless services is US$14 higher among US customers who use a variety of features and services on their cell phone, according to a J.D. Power and Associates study. This difference can have a positive impact on the bottom line for both handset manufacturers and service providers.  more

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Legislators Barring Electronic Distractions

Since 1997, when North Dakota state senators pioneered a ban on the use of electronic devices while official deliberations were underway, the parliamentary rules of more and more legislatures require cell phones, computers and other electronic distractions to be turned off or left at the door. more

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